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Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 



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Hon. Robert H. Roosf.vei.t Hon. Levi P, Mokton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

Bkig.-Ghn. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Rensselaer 

Morris K. Iesup Hon. Andrew I). White 



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J. P. Morgan & Co. 
:3 W.t!1 Street, New York 



Secretary 



Henry W. Sackett 
Tribune Building, New York 



Hssietant Secretary 

Edward Hag.\man Hall 

Tribune lUiilding, New York 



Perm.inently Organized, December 5, rqo5 



ITIiiiutcs of Jan. 24, Jan. 26 and Feb. 7, 1906 






Executive Committee 



Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, CJiairmaii iS Wall Street, New York 

Hon. Frank S. Black Troy, New York 

James M. Beck . . 44 Wall Street, New York 

Hun. J. Rider Cady _. Hudson, New York 

Henry W. Cannon 10 Wall Street, New York 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East gist Street, New York 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 6'j Wall Street, New York 

William J. Curtis 49 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. . . Elmira, New York 

Theodore Fitch.. , 120 Bioadway, New York 

Fredeiick de Peyster Fosltr 18 Wall Street, New York 

Thomas Powell Fowler 56 Beaver Street, New York 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis Troy, New York 

Hon. William VV. Goodrich 49 Wall Street, New York 

Brig.-Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A Governor's Island, New York 

Edward Hagaman Hall.. ..Tribune Building, New Yoik 

Hon. Warren Hit^ley 68 West 40th Street, New York 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany, New York 

August F. Jaccaci 7 West 43d Street, New York 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Street, New York 

Morris K. Jesup 44 Pine Street, New York 

Gen. Horatio C. King _ --375 FuUon Street, Brooklyn 

Dr. George F. Kunz Tiffany <S: Company, New York 

John La Farge 51 West roth Street, New York 

"Dr. Henry M. Leipziger . Park Avenue & cgih Street, New York 

Hon. Seth Low 30 East 64Lh Street, New York 

Frank D. Millet. 6 East 23d Street, New York 

William J. McKay... Newburgh, New Yoik 

Emerson McMillin 320 Riverside Avenue, New York 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Stree', New York 

Eben E. Olcott Desbrosses Sireet Pier, New Yoik 

John E. Parsons 52 William Street, New York 

Hon. Sereno E. Payne Auburn, New York 

Gen. Horace Porter : Union League Club, New York 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill, New Yoik 

Louis C. Raegener T41 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Herman Ridder ._ ..2 Tryon Row, New Yoik 

Williim Rockefeller 26 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 57 Fifth Avenue, New York 

Col. Henry W. Sackeit Tribune Building, New York 

President J. G. Schurman Ithaca, New York 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, New York 

Charles Stewart Smith 25 West 47ih Street, New York 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D . Princeton, New Jersey 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, New York 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany', New York 

Hon. Andrew D. White Ithaca, New York 

Gen. James Grant Wilson ^21 Fifth Avenue, New York 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

January 24, 1906 

The fourth meeting- of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, for executive 
business, was held in the Governors' Room of the City 
Hall. New York, Wednesday, January 24, at 4 P. M. 

Present: Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman: and 
Messrs. James M. Beck, Theodore Fitch, Fiederick de 
Peyster Foster, Hon. William W. Goodrich, Edward Haga- 
man Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, August F. Jaccaci, Col. 
Wm. Jay, Hon. Seth Low, Frank D. Millet, Emerson Mc- 
Millin, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, 
Hon. Herman Ridder, Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Fr-ederick 
W. Seward, Francis Lynde Stetson, Hon. Oscar S. Straus 
and Gen. James Grant Wilson. Also, Messi's. John G. Agar, 
Bayar-d L. Peck and Nelson Spencer, of the Committee on 
Legislation. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from the 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, Messrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Austen G. 
Fox, Morris K. Jesup, [)r-. Henry M. Leipziger, Ogden Mills, 
Eben E.Olcott, Hon. Sereno E. Payne, Pres. J. G. Schurman, 
Isaac N. Seligman, A. G. Vanderbilt, Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke, Dr. Samuel B. Wai-d,John E. Parsons and Hon. An- 
di-ew D. White, and tliey were excused. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 

and sent to all the members, were adopted without reading. 

The report of the Treasurer", J. P. Mor-gan & Co., was 

read, showing the r-eceipt of $640 from contributions, and 

no expenditures. 

The suggestion that an Auditing Committee be ap- 
pointed to approve bills for payment was I'eferred to the 
Joint Committee. 



36 January 24, 1906 

The Secretary presented the following bills for pay 
ment, subject to the approval of the Auditing Committee: 

Polhemus Printing Co.: letter-files $1 00 

" Two scrap-books i 70 

" Blank writing paper 2 00 

" 350 subscription blanks 3 00 

" 1,000 clasp envelopes 10 75 

" 350 circulars of Dec. 23rd, and 

electro 5 00 

" 500 copies minutes of Dec. i6th, 

and electro 17 35 

" 100 copies of 24-page booklet, 

list of names . 24 00 

" 500 copies revised edition of 

same- 14 co 

" 500 copies minu';es of Dec. 29th. 20 50 

Henry Romeike, Inc., 43 press clippings 

in December i 29 

Irving Press: 500 letter- heads, 1,000 envel- 
opes, and electro of letter- 
head 9 10 

$109 69 

The Secretary stated that he had made additional dis- 
bursements to the amount of nearly one hundred dollars, 
and that the bill for stenographer's services at public hear- 
ings had not yet been presented. 

Mr. Straus asked for information as to the source of 
means for meeting these obligations. He would be very 
glad to contribute, but had received no request. 

The Secretary explained that, in accordance with the 
resolution of the Joint Committee, adopted Dec. 5th, a cir- 
cular and subscription blank had been sent to all the mem- 
bers, asking them, if entirely convenient, to send ifiio each 
to the Treasurer (J. P. Morgan & Co., 23 Wall Street), as a 
contribution toward the preliminary expenses. As these 
documents were enclosed with the printed minutes of the 
first meeting of the Executive Committee, it appeared that 
i-n several instances they had either gone astray or had 
been overlooked. The Secretary said he would send out 
another circular-letter to those who had not received or 
responded to the first. 

There was some further discussion of ways and means 



January 24, iqo6 37 

tor preliminary expenses, two or three members expressing 
their willingness to guarantee their payment if necessary. 

It was voted that the bills presented by the Secretary 
be referred to the Joint Committee, with the recommenda- 
tion that they be paid. 

The Secretary, as Chairman of the Committee com- 
posed of Messrs. Sackett, Higley and Fitch, appointed to 
arrange for the compensation of the Assistant Secretary, 
reported, recommending that the Assistant Secretary be 
paid in monthly installments at the rate of $2,500 a year, 
beginning from the time of his election, Dec. 5, 1905, and 
so to continue until the Executive Committee deemed it 
advisable to increase the amount. He explained that the 
sub-Committee had conferred with the Assistant Secretary, 
who had consented to this amount until the increased de- 
mands upon him or his office made it equitable that the 
sum should be increased. At present this compensation 
included the use of the Assistant Secretary's office and the 
assistance of his office stenographer for correspondence. 

Upon motion of Mr. Stetson, modified at the sugges- 
tion of Mr. Sackett, it was voted to recommend to the 
Joint Committee that the compensation of the Assistant 
Secretary be fixed at 62,500 per annum until further action, 
as contemplated in the report of the Committee. 

The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Thomas 
A. Fulton, of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, expressing the 
opinion that the fault with all recent expositions in this 
country had been the effort of each to surpass its predeces- 
sor in size. He thought the most useful exhibitions were 
the series held at South Kensington, beginning with the 
'' Fisheries," each succeeding one taking a different subject. 
The naval exhibition at Chelsea years later was equally 
successful. He therefore suggested the merging of the 
Fulton Centennial Committee and the Hudson Ter-Cen- 
tenary Joint Committee, and that a joint exposition be 
held in Bronx, Queens or Richmond Borough, beginning 
with an exhibition covering "Ships and Navigation." 

The Chairman stated, apropos of the suggestion for the 
merging of the two Committees, that having received an 
informal intimation that such a union would be agreeable 
to the Fulton Committee, he and the Secretary had written 
to Mayor McClellan the following letter : 



38 January 24, 1906 

January 24, 1906. 
The Hon. George B. McClellan, 

Mayor of the City of New York, 

City Hall, New York. 
Dear Sir : 

We have learned from the Secretary of the Committee 
appointed by you to arrange for the celebration in 1907 of 
the Centennial Anniversary of the first steam navigation 
of the Hudson River by Robert Fulton that such Commit- 
tee is to make its report to you on Thursday morning of 
this week, respecting the form of such celebration. 

In discussing the matter with other members of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, appointed by you 
and the Governor of the State of New York, it has occurred 
to us to suggest to you the propriety of merging these two 
committees for the purpose of celebrating both events in 
1909 

Our reason for this are briefly these : 

These two events in the history of the Hudson River 
are so intimately related that their commemoration can with 
great propriety be combined in one celebration. Not only 
are the two events mutually related by their connection with 
the Hudson River, but an interesting coincidence of dates 
adds to the propriety of celebrating in 1909 the centennial 
of the beginning of steam navigation, for it was in 1809 
that the Legislature of the State granted to Fulton the 
exclusive privilege of navigating the river — out of which 
action grew the famous case of Gibbons and Ogden, 
establishing the right of free navigation. 

We believe that the union of these two observances will 
strengthen each. It will not only allow the municipality 
and the various civic interests concerned to focus their en- 
ergies on one great observance, but it will more effectually 
concentrate upon itself the public attention of the world. 

If the suggestion which we have made meets with your 
approval, and it should prove acceptable to the members of 
the Committee appointed by you for the Fulton Celebra- 
tion, we believe that it would be a conclusion which would 
not only be cordially received by all the members of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Committee, but would also serve in 
every way the best public interests. 
Yours truly, 

STEWART L. WOODFORD, 

President. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 

Mr. Straus said that the suggestion for the appoint- 
ment of the Fulton Committee originated in the New York 
Board of Trade and Transportation ; that he had been ap- 



January 24, 1906 39 

pointed on both the Fulton and Hudson Committees; that 
he thought that having two such movements in the air 
would keep both in the air : and that he had declined the 
appointment on the Fulton Committee and recommended 
the consolidation of both. 

Mr. Low thought the merging of the two committees a 
very wise step, and moved that the action of the President 
and Secretary in writing the foregoing letter he approved. 
Seconded by Mr. Straus and carried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the Committee on Legislation be 
requested to draft a Charter of Incorporation of the Hud- 
son Ter-Centenary Joint Committee and report it to the 
next executive session of the Executive Committee. 

The Chairman asked members of the Committee to 
express their views as to the scope of the proposed legisla- 
tion. 

The Secretary suggested that in making up the list of 
incorporators the Committee take into consideration a list 
of 22 names approved by Gov. Higgins in addition to those 
already appointed by him on the Joint Committee. The 
names included that of an ex Governor now residing in New 
Jersey, ex-President Cleveland. 

Mr. Stetson thought the bill of incorporation should 
cover these point: 

The first section could present all of the names, with 
the names of the Governors and ex-Governors. Mr. Cleve- 
land, he observed, was not the only living ex-Governor. 
There was an ex-Governor of New York in the White House 
who might be included. 

The second section should be devoted to the conferring 
of the necessary powers. 

The third section should provide for an ample appro- 
priation by the State and City to enable the Committee to 
make provision for the Celebration on a wide and ample 
scale. 

He recommended that the draft of the bill be sent in 
proof form to all members of the Joint Committee before 
the meeting at which they are called upon to adopt it. 

He said that the approaching anniversary presented a 
great opportunity. Before the consolidation of Greater 
New York, the Old City had been held up as a city without 
civic pride. Now was a good time to show that we had it. 



January 24, 1906 

.f thP Commission appointed to represent New 
V^ra^X Ch cag?ExposUlon on Manhauan Day and he 

York at he ^^''f ,; ^„d expressing pr.de in 

appreciated the valuo ^g^^^ ^^^^^^,^_^ ^^^^^^ 

°"' ' '^n^nt outgrowth of that Fair, the product of the 
as a permanent ""'S™'^^ distinguished citizens, 

't'r dtsTdied and eff it $8,ooo,ooc. The Hudson ter- 
"tiar as i^.edfate expenses were concerned he was 

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^"Turing to the commemoration itself, Mr. Low said that 

;'::trbeTatr" :L:;Toreign%opu,rtion and partly 

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:? f't nflle c:of these channels on the development 
'of the City, he referred to the time prior to the open ng 

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ued her pre-eminence, because, among other advantages, 



January 24, 1906 41 

New Yorkers did not have to climb the Alleghany moun- 
tains to communicate with the west. As a result of the 
streams of life flowing to and through the City from the 
other parts of the United States, New York was an epitome 
of the growth of the nation. 

If the enterprise which we had in hand were carried for- 
ward in a large way, he was sure that everybody would 
take pride in it. In the bill of incorporation we should 
ask for ample powers and an appropriation as large as 
might be thought wise. The latter should be sufficient to 
enable the Committee to lay out its plans on a large scale; 
and perhaps the City and State would give more liberally 
later. He favored laying out the plans of the celebration 
on lines broad enough to deal adequately with the oppor- 
tunity. 

Col. Jay expressed his str()ng pride in and affection for 
the City of New York. His mind had not yet hit upon 
any definite scheme for the celebration, but he was inclined 
toward something permanent in the way of a monument, 
gate, statue, building or public square. He thought that 
we were far behind European cities in laying out our town. 
The plan of New York City's streets was as poor as could 
be imagined. The streets had evidently been ruled out on 
paper at right angles, without any regard to the topog- 
raphy of the Island. If we could get up something, not so 
big as the Place de la Concorde in Paris or Trafalgar 
Square in London, but an attempt at some architectural 
fulfillment, he thought it might be worth while. 

As to money for temporary expenses, he recalled his 
experience on the Commission appointed by Gov. Cornell 
at the time of the Yorktown centennial in 1881. When the 
French visitors became the guests of the New York Com- 
mission, the mem.bers of the latter found themselves facing 
some large expenses with no appropriation. They assessed 
themselves, however, to meet the situation, with the expec- 
tation that they would be reimbursed, and their confidence 
in that respect was not disappointed. He felt sure that 
whatever the members of this Committee assessed upon 
themselves would be refunded. 

Mr. Seward thought that Mr. Low had hit upon the 
most important point of all when he spoke of seeing that 
the powers sought to be granted by the Legislature should 



42 January 24, 1906 

be ample. The Committee had no power now. It was 
simply an advisory board. It could receive suggestions 
and make them, but could not carry them out or extend its 
power. He would insist that the powers granted be large, 
and the discretion left in the Corporation be ample, because 
we did not now know what our plans would be, and we 
should not be so tied down as to prevent our carrying out a 
large plan. 

Mr. Low said that while it was natural for us to empha- 
size the interest of the City we should not forget that this 
event concerns the State as well, and shape our plans 
accordingly. 

Judge Goodrich suggested that the Corporation be given 
the power of condemning property. If this body were 
organized into a corporation, it would certainly be a cor- 
poration for public purposes, and possibly it would follow 
that it would have the right to apply to the proper authori- 
ties to take property by eminent domain. He did not 
know just exactly how the fullest measure of public inter- 
est was to be aroused in this celebration. If we had the 
courage to ask for an appropriation that would startle the 
State of New York, one which would rise into the millions, 
it might wake up the people and the press and stimulate 
an interest commensurate with the importance of the event. 

Mr. Seward thought Judge Goodrich's suggestion capi- 
tal. We must ask for a good deal more than we expect to 
get. The Charter should also be drawn with a view to 
getting all the power that will ever be needed. 

Mr, Low regarded it as of doubtful policy to go before 
the Legislature without a plan and ask for much money. 
We could very properly ask for a large appropriation to 
.carry out a plan when we knew what it was, but he coun- 
seled the Committee not to ask for a large sum for a 
temporary corporation. 

Mr. Stetson agreed with Mr. Low and reiterated his own 
suggestion that until apian was formulated, the Committee 
limit its Charter to three sections, naming the incorporators 
and corporation, a statement of the corporation's powers 
and an appropriation sufficient to enable it to mature its 
plans. As to exercising the power of eminent domain, he 
was inclined to think the Committee should limit itself to 
an appeal to the City authorities. He hoped we could 



January 24, 1906 43 

arouse the City to make large provision for the celebration. 
He recalled the fact that when efforts were beino; made to 
have the Columbian Exposition held in New York the 
Legislature had been induced to pass laws for the extension 
of the Metrop(^litan Museum of Art and the American 
Museum of Natural History. He thought these laws had 
never been repealed and that the municipal authorities 
could be stirred up to avail themselves of them. It was, 
rather, the other side — the state side — for which we should 
make provision in the charter ; for while the corporation 
of the City could make provision for the City, there was 
no organization to operate all up and down the Hudson. 

The Secretary suggested that if an exposition were 
held it might be found necessary to condemn property 
outside of the city, and asked if it might not be a useful 
power of the corporation to exercise the right of eminent 
domain beyond the city limits. 

After some further discussion Mr. Fitch's motion, that 
the Committee on Legislation be requested to draft a 
Charter and submit it to the Executive Committee, was 
carried. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretarv. 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

January 26, 1906. 

The fifth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee was held in public 
in the Governors' Room in the City Hall of New York, 
Friday, January 26, 1906, at 2.30 p. m. This was the third 
and last public hearing for the purpose of receiving sugges- 
tions as to the form of the proposed celebration in 1909. 

Present : Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, pre- 
siding ; and Messrs. William J. Curtis, Theodore Fitch, 
Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, William 
J. McKay, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Henry W. Sackett 
and the Hon, Frederick W. Seward. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from the Hon. 
J. Sloat Fassett, Messrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Austen G. F"ox, 
Morris K. Jesup, Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Henry M. 
Leipziger, Ogden Mills, Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Sereno E. Payne, President J. G. Schurman, Isaac 
N. Seligman, A G. Vanderbilt, Rev. Henry Van Dyke, 
D.D., Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Hon. Andrew D. White, 
and they were excused. 

The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was 
dispensed with. 

The Chairman announced that the Committee was 
ready to listen to further suggestions concerning the plan 
of the proposed celebration in 1909. 

The Hon. John H. Coyne, Mayor of Yonkers, heading a 
committee representing that city, introduced Mr. Charles 
Philip Easton, President of the Board of Education of 
Yonkers, as their spokesman, 

Mr. Easton had nothing definite to suggest as to the 
form of the celebration, but said that if the Ter-Centenary 
Committee desired five or six hundred acres of space, or 
even more, that area was available in the City of Yonkers. 

Mr. Abraham Hasbrouck, of Kingston, N. Y., pre- 
sented a letter from the Hon. A. W. Thompson, Mayor of 
Kingston, asking him to represent that city at the hearing. 
He said he came unprepared to make any suggestion, but 
asked that Kingston be given some representation on the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, as the people of 
that city were interested and would like to co-operate. 



January 26, 1906 45 

The Chairman explained that the Committee had been 
appointed by the Governor of the State and the Mayor of 
New York, and if such an important city as Kingston had 
been overlooked the Committee regretted it. 

Mrs. A. L. Freed, of No. 30 East 426. Street, whose 
husband appeared at the hearing December 29, 1905, said 
that he expected to attend the present hearing to speak on 
the subject of an exposition, but had been prevented. She 
therefore came in his place. She said that Chicago, Paris 
and St. Louis had been benefited by their expositions and 
that Brussels and Antwerp had been built up alone by ex- 
positions. She thought that New York was a dull place in 
summer and that an exposition in or near the city would 
benefit the tradespeople of the town. 

Mr. Pierre H. Marshall, terminal agent of the Baltimore 
& Ohio Railroad Co., Pier 22, North River, New York, 
spoke in favor of Staten Island as a site for the proposed 
exposition. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, whose road 
came into Staten Island, was one of the only two roads 
whose rails came into the City of New York. He said that 
Staten Island was accessible by rail and water and had 
connection with all the trunk lines. He assumed that 
there was no question as to the advisability of a world's 
fair. He disclaimed any authority to speak for Staten 
Island, but came as a friend of Mr. Freed to speak for the 
transportation interests. 

Mr. Easton, speaking again of the availability of 
Yonkers for an exposition, predicted that that city would 
eventually come within the boundaries of New York. 
Yonkers had twenty-one square miles of area ; was situated 
on the Hudson ; u^as within fifteen miles of the Grand Cen- 
tral Station of New York; was accessible by the Hudson 
division of the New York Central, the Putnam division, the 
New York & Harlem, and by trolley from New York ; and 
by March ist it would be accessible by the Interborough 
Rapid Transit. It was also easily accessible from the east, 
and New Jersey people could reach it by river on the west. 
These were features which commended Yonkers to the con- 
sideration of the Committee. 

The Hon. Theodore H. Silkman, of 459 Palisade Ave- 
nue, Yonkers, Surrogate of Westchester County, said that 
he thought a permanent exposition was the most perfect 



46 January 26, 1906 

way in which to honor the memory of Henry Hudson. 
World's fairs in the past liad been transient affairs, leaving 
possibly one building or monument to indicate where they 
had been held ; but if we could make a new departure and 
establish an expo'^ition to last into the future as far as the 
discovery of the Hudson was past, we would do something 
that would honor ourselves, our country and the locality 
which we represent. He concluded his remarks by moving 
that it was the sense of the meeting that "the form of this 
tribute be in the nature of a permanent exposition located 
somewhere upon the Hudson River." 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown seconded the motion. 

Mr. Henry E. Gregory, of No. 59 Wall Street, New 
York, understood that this was not a meeting for the adop- 
tion of resolutions, but simply a hearing given by the 
Executive Committee to individuals who desired to express 
their views. It was not a meeting for the transaction of 
business. He desired to record his protest against the as- 
sumption that public opinion was generally in favor of an 
exposition. He believed that New York did not want any 
permanent exposition to honor Henry Hudson. It looked 
to him as if those who wanted an exposition most were in- 
terested in railroads or money-making schemes. He hoped 
the Committee would decide against such a form of cele- 
bration. He was not sure just what form the commemora- 
tion ought to take; but he was convinced that that was the 
form which it ought not to take. Chicago migjit have 
needed an exposition in 1892 or 1893, and St. Louis may 
have been benefited by the exposition of 1904, but New 
York was not in the same class and did not require any 
world's fair. 

Mr. Easton disclaimed, for the Yonkers Committee, 
any interest in the real estate business. Mr. Skinner, a 
member of the committee, was an officer of the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad, but that road did not touch Yonkers or 
New York. 

Mr. George A. Bagley, of Peekskill, reinforced the ar- 
guments which he had presented at the previous two hear- 
ings in favor of a permanent exposition at Verplanck's 
Point. 

The Hon. Alonzo Wheeler, of Haverstraw, N. Y., ap- 
peared in behalf of the Hon. Wilson P. Foss, President of 
the Village of Haverstraw, to say that if the latter were 
present he would speak strongly in favor of an exposition- 



January 26, 1906 47 

The Hon. Isaac H. Smith, President of the Village of 
Peekskill, spoke in favor of a permanent exposition. He 
thought that in the near future there would be a perma- 
nent exposition in the nation somewhere, and he thought 
tliat the anniversary now approaching offered a good occa- 
sion for establishing it here in New York State. He heartily 
endorsed Judge Silkman's sentiments upon that point. 

Mr. Bernard S. Deutsch, of No. 61 Park Row, New 
York, representing the City History Club of New York, 
wanted to go on record as opposed to any permanent ex- 
position very close to New York City. He said that the 
city had not yet solved its own transportation problems; 
that the manner in which the people of New York were 
handled by the transit lines was intolerable, and that we 
were not in a position to invite great crowds from all over 
the world to visit the city when we could not take care of 
our own people properly. He was in favor of an exposi- 
tion, but it should be located so far away from the City of 
New York that the city would, in a measure, be free from 
additional worry and care in regard to its transportation 
facilities. 

Mr. J. C. Pumpelly, of No. 2881 Broadway, New York, 
reiterated the views expressed by him at the hearing, Decem- 
ber 29, 1905, and hoped that the whole celebration would 
"take the strongest form possible along the line of the highest 
ideals of scenic improvement in art in a commemorative 
way." He thought we had an overabundance of com- 
mercialism and did not think any one would be in favor of 
a commercial enterprise where a great many goods would 
be displayed and then sold at the very best profit. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown, of No. 509 Fifth Avenue, New 
York, who had spoken at the two previous hearings in 
favor of a permanent exposition at Verplanck's Point, spoke 
in the interest of the "eighty-five million people of 
this country and the fourteen hundred million people on 
this planet," and declared that the gentleman who said 
that he did not want a permanent exposition spoke only 
for himself. The men who drew their incomes and could 
go to their clubs, and could go to Europe, and could sail 
about on their yachts, might do without a permanent 
exposition, he said; but the millions of people who had 
only half a dollar needed the exposition. 



48 January 26, 1906 

Mr. Richard G. Holaman, of the Eden Musee, New 
York, who had advocated a universal exposition at the 
hearing December 29, 1905, thought that the transporta- 
tion facilities would be adequate to handle an exposition 
crowd three years hence. 

The Secretary reported that the President had received 
a letter signed by Mr. L. A. R. Robinson, and dated No, 
214 West 44th Street, stating that on January 21st, by the 
kindness of Dr. Brown, he had gone over parts of the 
ground at Verplanck's Point, where he understood the 
permanent exposition was to be held, and he regarded the 
place as the most suitable for the purpose. The argu- 
ments advanced in favor of the exposition were in line 
with those already given before the Executive Com- 
mittee. 

The Chairman, referring to Judge Silkman's motion, 
said that as objection had been raised by a member of 
the Committee, he thought it would not be in order 
for him as Chairman of the Executive Committee to put 
the question to the assembly. If, however, the Judge 
wanted a vote of the friends present, the Chairman would 
yield long enough for him to put the motion. 

Judge Silkman withdrew his motion, stating that he 
offered it more for the purpose of evoking discussion than 
to find out how the gentlemen felt on the subject. 

The Secretary reported that the President had received 
a letter from Mr. Charles Elting Rickerson, of No. 276 
Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, a real estate dealer, offering an 
exposition site of 500 acres on Jamaica Bay, with two and 
a half miles of water front, for the sum of $500,000. 

The Secretary also reported the receipt of a letter 
from Mr. J. Du Pratt White, Secretary of the Commission- 
ers of the Palisades Inter-State Park, stating that the 
Commission would probably communicate their sugges- 
tions in a short time. 

No one else desiringto be heard, the Chairman thanked 
those who had appeared before the Committee and 
declared the public hearings closed. 

The Committee then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretarv. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



Proposed Charter, Drafted by 

The Committee on Legislation, 

February 7, 1906. 

A meeting of the Committee on Legislation was held 
at the office of the Chairman, the Hon. William W. Good- 
rich, No 49 Wall street, at 4 p. m., Wednesday, Feb. 7, 
1906. 

Present : Judge Goodrich, presiding; and Messrs. 
John G. Agar, Bayard L. Peck and Nelson S. Spencer. 
An unavoidable engagement detained Mr. Cravath. 

The President and Secretaries of the Joint Committee 
were present by request. 

The preliminary draft of a Charter, which had been 
considered at a previous meeting, was amended to the form 
following. 

It was voted that the proposed Charter be reported to 
the Executive Committee at a meeting to be held in the 
Governors' Room of the City Hall on Wednesday, February 
14, at 2 p. m. in order that the Executive Committee, if it 
saw fit, might report it to the Joint Committee at a meet- 
ing to be held at the same place and on the same day at 
4 p. m. 

It was also voted that the draft be printed as soon as 
possible and sent to all the members, with the intimation 
that the Committee would be glad to receive from them 
any suggestions which they might desire to offer. Com- 
munications on the subject may be sent to the Secretary. 

PROPOSED CHARTER. 

AN ACT to Incorporate the HUDSON TER-CEN- 
TENARY COMMISSION. 

The People of the State of New York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section i. Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleve- 
land, Levi P. Morton, David B. Hill, Frank S. Black, 
Benjamim B. Odell, Jr., Stewart L. Woodford, Robert 
B. Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Frederick D. Grant, 
Morris K. Jesup, William Rockefeller, William B. 
Van Rensselaer, Andrew D. White, J. Pierpont Mor- 



50 February 7, 1906 

gan, Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hag-aman Hall, Her- 
bert Adams, R. B. Aldcroft, Jr., John G. Agar, B. 
Altman, Louis Annin Ames, John E. Andriis, James 
K, Apgar, John D. Archbold, John Jacob Astor, 
Theodore M. Banta, Franklin Bartlett, James C. Bay- 
les, James M. Beck, August Belmont, William Berri, 
Cornelius N. Bliss, E. W. Bloomingdale, Reginald 
Pelham Bolton, Thomas W. Bradley, George V. 
Brower, E, Parmly Brown, Henry K. Bush-Brown, 
Wm. L. Bull, E. H. Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler, 
J. Rider Cady, J. H. Callanan, Henry W. Cannon, 
Joseph H. Choate, Caspar Purdon Clarke, George C. 
Clausen, A. T. Clearwater, Thomas Clyde, E. C. Con- 
verse, Walter Cook, John H. Coyne, E. D. Cummings, 
William J. Curtis, Paul D. Cravath, Charles de Kay, 
James de la Montanye, Chauncey M. Depew, Edward 
DeWitt, William Draper, Charles A. DuBois, John C. 
Fames, George Ehret, Smith Ely, Arthur English, John 
M. Farley, J. Sloat Fassett, Barr Ferree, Stuyvesant 
Fish, Theodore Fitch, Winchester Fitch, J. J. Fitzgerald, 
Frederick de Peyster Foster, Thomas Powell Fowler, 
Austen G. Fox, Charles S. Francis, Henry C. Frick, Fraiak 
S. Gardner, Garret J. Garretson, Theodore P. Gilman, 
Robert Walton Goelet, William W. Goodrich, George 
J. Gould, George F. Gregory, Henry E. Gregory, 
W. L. Guillaudeu, Abner S. Haighc, Benjamin F. 
Hamilton, William S. Hawk, James A. Hearn, 
Peter Cooper Hewitt, Warren Higley, Michael H. 
Hirschberg, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Richard 
G. Hollaman, Willis Holly, Colgate Hoyt, LeRoy 
Hubbard, Thomas H. Hubbard, T, D. Huntting, 
August F. Jaccaci, William Jay, Hugh Kelly, 
James H. Kennedy, John H. Ketcham, Horatio 
C. King, Albert- E. Kleinert, George F. Kunz, 
John LaFarge, Charles R. Lamb, Frederick S. Lamb, 
Homer Lee, Charles W. Lefler, Julius Lehrenkrauss, 
Henry M. Leipziger, Clarence Lexow, Gustav Linden- 
thai, Walter Seth Logan, Charles H. Loring, Seth 
Low, William A. Marble, George E. Matthews, Wil- 
liam McCarroll, Donald McDonald, William J. Mc- 



February 7, 1906 51 

Kay, St. Clair McKelway, Emerson McMillin, Georg^e 
VV. Melville, Herman A. Metz, John G. Milburn, Frank 
D. Millet, A. L.Mills, Ogden Mills, C.H.Niehaus,Ludwii^ 
Nissen. Jacob W. Miller, VV. R. O'Donovan, Eben E. 
Olcott, William Church Osborn, Percy B. O'Sullivan, 
Orrel A. Parker, John E. Parsons, Samuel Parsons, Jr. , 
Samuel H. Parsons, Sereno E. Payne, George Foster 
Peabody, R. E. Peary, Bayard L. Peck, Gordon H. 
Peck, Rowland Pell, George W. Perkins, N. Tovlor 
Phillips, Thomas C. Piatt, George A. Plimpton, Eugene 
H. Porter, Horace Porter. Henry C. Potter, Cornelius 
A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, Herman Ridder, 
Charles F. Roe, Carl J. Roehr, Louis T. Romaine, 
Thomas F. Ryan, George Henry Sargent, Herbert L. 
Satterlee, Charles A. Schermcrhorn, Jacob Goidd 
Schurman, Gustav H. Schwab, Isaac N. Seligman, 
Louis Seligsberg, Joseph H. Senner, Frederick W. 
Seward, George F. Seward, William F. Sheelian, J. 
Edward Simmons, John VV. Simpson, E. V. Skinner, 
Charles Stewart Smith, Nelson S. Spencer, John H. 
Starin, Isaac Stern, Louis Stern, Francis Lynde Stet- 
son, Louis Stewart, James Stillman, Oscar S. Straus, 
Theodore Sutro, Henry C. Swords, Henry R. Towne, 
Spencer Trask, C. Y. Turner, Albert Ulmann, Aaron 
V^anderbilt, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vander- 
bilt, Henry Van Dyke, Warner Van Norden, Miss A. 
T. Van Santvoord, J. Leonard Varick, E, B, Vreeland, 
Charles G. F. VVahle, Samuel B. Ward. W. L. Ward, 
William C. Warren, Edward Wells, Jr., George West- 
inghouse, Charles W. Wetmore, Edmund Wetmore, 
J. Du Pratt White, Fred. C. Whitney, William R. Will- 
cox, James Grant Wilson, Chas. B.Wolffram, Timothy L. 
Woodruff, W. E. WooUey and James A. Wright, who 
were appointed by His Excellency, the Governor 
of the State of New York, or by the Mayor of the 
City of New York, as members of the Hudson Ter- 
centenary Joint Committee and of the Fulton Centen- 
nial Committee, and all such persons as are or may 
hereafter be associated with them, by the appoint- 
ment of the Governor or of the said Mayor, shall 



52 February 7, 1906 

be and are hereby constituted a body politic and 
corporate by the name of the Hudson Ter-Centenary 
Commission, which corporation shall be a public cor- 
poration, with all the powers specified in the eleventh 
Section of the General Corporation Law, except as 
otherwise provided by this xAct. It shall have no 
capital stock. 

Section 2. The object of said corporation shall 
be the public celebration or commemoration of the 
Ter-Centenary of the discovery of the Hudson River 
by Hendrik Hudson in the year 1609, and of the first 
use of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert 
Fulton in the year 1807, in such manner and form, 
either permanent or temporary, as may be found ap- 
propriate by said Commission. 

Section 3. The said Commission shall have 
power to acquire, hold and possess for the purposes 
of its incorporation real or personal estate within the 
State of New York in fee or for a term of years, or 
any easement therein, by gift, devise, bequest, grant, 
lease or purchase; and in case such Commission should 
be unable to agree with the owners thereof for the pur- 
chase or lease of any real estate required for the pur- 
poses of its incorporation, it shall have the right to 
acquire the same, by condemnation, in the manner 
provided by the Condemnation Law, being Chapter 23 
of the Code of Civil Procedure. 

Section 4. The affairs and business of said Com- 
mission shall be conducted by a Board of not less than 
twenty-five nor more than one hundred trustees, a 
quorum of whom for the transaction of business shall 
be fixed by the By-Laws. 

The trustees for the first year shall be Theodore 
Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Levi P. Morton, David 
B. Hill, Frank S. Black, Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., Stew- 
art L. Woodford, Robert B. Roosevelt, Andrew Car- 
negie, Frederick D. Grant, Morris K. Jesup, William 
Rockefeller, William B. Van Rensselaer, Andrew D. 



February 7, 1906 53 

White, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry W. Sackett, Ed- 
ward Hagaman Hall, James M. Beck, J. Rider Cady, 
Henry W. Cannon, Joseph H. Choate, William J. Cur- 
tis, J. Sloat Farsett, Theodore Fitch, Frederick de 
Peyster Foster, Thomas Powell Fowler, Charles S. 
Francis, William W. Goodrich, Warren Higley, 
Thomas H. Hubbard, August F. Jaccaci, William 
Jay, James H. Kennedy, Horatio C. King, George 
Frederick Kunz. John LaFarge, Henry M. Leipziger, 
Seth Low, William McCarroll, William J. McKay, 
Emerson McMillin, John G. Milburn, Frank D. Millet, 
Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, Sereno E. f^ayne, 
Horace Porter, Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raeg- 
ener, Herman Ridder, Jacob Gould Schurman, Fred- 
erick W. Seward, J. Edward Simmons, Charles Stew- 
art Smith, Francis Lynde Stetson, Oscar S. Straus, Cor- 
nelius Vanderbilt, Henry Van Dyke, wSamuel B. Ward, 
Andrew D. White and James Grant Wilson. 

Such trustees shall make the By-Laws of the Com- 
mission, providing among other things for the election 
of their successors within thirteen months from the pas- 
sage of this act, and for the election of officers, as 
therein specitied, to hold otifice until the succeeding an- 
nual election of trustees, and until their successors aie 
elected, and for the filling of vacancies in any office. 
They shall continue to hold office until the succeeding 
election of trustees to the number and in the manner 
provided by the said By-Laws. 

Sections. None of the trustees or members of 
said Commission, except one or more assistants to the 
Secretary, shall receive any compensation for services, 
nor shall any of them be pecuniarily interested directly 
or indirectly in any contract relating to the affairs of 
said Commission ; nor shall said Commission make any 
dividend or division of its property among its members, 
managers or officers. 

Section 6. Said Commission shall annuall\- make 
to the Legislature a statement of its affairs, and from 



54 February 7, 1906 

time to time report to the Legislature such recommen- 
dations as are pertinent to the objects for which it is 
created, and may act jointly or otherwise with any 
persons appointed by any other State for purposes sim- 
ilar to those intended to be accomplished by this Act. 

Section 7. Whenever the Commission shall re- 
port to the Legislature that the purposes for which the 
Commission is created have been attained and all its 
debts and obligations have been paid, its remaining 
real and personal property shall be disposed of as the 
Legislature may direct. 

Section 8. The Commission sb.all have power to 
receive subscriptions from parties who may desire to 
contribute to the object of the said Commission. 

Section 9. The Treasurer of the State of New 
York, within one month after Ihe passage of this act, 
shall pay to the said Commission the sum of 
dollars out of any funds of the State not otherwise ap- 
propriated, such sum to be used for the purposes of 
said Commission. 

Section 10. Ihe City of New York may provide 
and pay to the said Commission such sums of monej' 
as it shall deem expedient for the purpose of carrying 
out the objects of the Commission. 

Section II. The property of the Commission 
shall be devoted 10 public use, and shall be exempt 
from any assessment or tax for State, countv, town or 
local purposes until the year 1916. Such corporation 
shall also be exempt during such' term from taxation 
under Section 182 of the Tax Law. 

Section 12. The Commission may appouit and 
employ, at its own expense, policemen, with all the 
powers of such officers in cities, towns and villages, 
for the preservation of order and of public peace upon 



P>bruary 7. 1906 55 

the land or property belonging: to or used by said 
Commission for the purpose of its incorporation. 
Each of such policemen shall be appointed from the 
hrst three names appearing at the time of a])pointment 
on a list or lists of persons determined to be eligible 
for the position by competitive examinations to be 
held by the .State Civil Service Commission, which 
Commission is hereby empowered to conduct the 
same and to certify said lists in accordance with the 
provisions of the Civil Service Law and its rules, so 
far as applicable, provided that, if the name of any 
person on said list be passed in appointment three 
times, it shall be dropped from the list. All such ap- 
pointments and removals of persons so ap])ointed shall 
be certified by the proper officer of the Hudson Ter- 
centenary Commission to the State Civil Service 
Commission within ten days after they shall be niade 
respectively. Nothing in this section contained shall 
be construed as in any mannei- limiting or abridging 
the power of the local autb.orities to appoint, at their 
expense, officers of the peace to act upon the land or 
property of the Corporation. 

Section 13. The duration of the Corporation 
shall be ten years. 

Section 14. This Act shall take effect immedi- 
ately. 



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